I spent the evening down and pigseye and I noticed that the Beltline and Hoffman yards were pretty empty. I drove all the way back by their office and there were only trains on three of the tracks and one of those left before I went home. Does anybody know why there are so few trains down here? I have never seen it so empty before, it's almost like they were clearing it out.

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Bird flu. No, wait, that is something else. That is strange. They must actually be moving stuff. I wonder if everything is moved over to SSP.

My first thought was flooding. I know that the Red River Valley authorities have moved from "planning" to "preparing" for spring flooding. I know that Pig's Eye has had flooding in the past. Probably a far change of that, though.

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I was thinking about flooding, but there not predicting any right now. I took this today and there are two more trains in the yard then last night, so maybe it was just normal operations

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Flooding, prob not there is not much that much snow around to cause much flodding this year, have you drove over by the science mesume they have a area with about 7 storage tracks (this is below fordson jct on the CP Merriam park sub)

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No I haven't been over there, I was into SSP yesterday and the yard there looks fairly normal.

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